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Douglas, Norman.. CAPRI Materials for a Description of The Island.. G. Orioli. Florence, 1930.
Price: US$353.73 + shipping
Description: 1st Ed. Royal 8vo. 365pp. + [i]. T.p. device, 22 plates, blue plate of the Blue Grotto, several tipped in ills. Marginal browning, cloth backed boards, some fading particularly to spine, faded and rubbed label to spine, extremities rubbed with sl. loss to lower leading corner. No. 99 of 500 Copies (of a Larger Limitation of 525), Signed by the Author. US$349
Seller: Francis Edwards ABA ILAB, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
Douglas, Norman. Capri: Materials for a Description (SIGNED). G. Orioli, Florence, Italy, 1930.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 365 pages, 4to. No dust-jacket. Limited Edition of 525 numbered and signed copies, of which this is copy no.17. SIGNED by the author Norman Douglas on limited page. The Lungarno Series, No.3. Light blue cloth boards with dark blue cloth spine, dark blue leather title box along spine with gilt lettering. Shelfwear: scuffing along edges and covers, fading on cover boards and spine, some light smudges on cover boards, light tanning along page edges. Nearly all page leafs remain uncut. Tightly bound, no marks. Volume is in Very Good condition.
Seller: Russian Hill Bookstore, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Douglas, Norman. Capri: Materials For A Description Of The Island. G. Orioli, Florence, 1930.
Price: US$517.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: $410 Of A Limited Edition Of 525 Copies Of Which 500 Were For Sale (There Was Also A Deluxe Subscribers' Edition Of 100). Green Burlap Spine, Violet Boards Thus Unlike Other Copies In Green Burlap With Blue Boards), Black Morocco Spine Label, Gilt, Double Rules At Top And Bottom (Perhaps A Facsimile Of The Original Label, Which Had Single Rules). Inscribed "To My 'Chester Boy' From Mother July 5, 1932." Fine, No Wear, Binding Very Similar To Original But May Well Be An Excellent Facsimile. Pages Clean And Unworn, But Browning At Edges.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
DOUGLAS, Norman.. Capri - Materials for a Description of the Island.. G. Orioli, Florence., 1930.
Price: US$739.61 + shipping
Description: First edition. Issued as the third title in the Lungarno Series. Quarto. 365 pages. Twenty-three plates. Two mounted plates in the text. Coarse cloth-backed boards with leather title label on the spine. Collected edition of ten rare pamphlets. Number 280 of 525 copies numbered and signed by the author.As usual, some fading to edges of covers and spine. Very good indeed.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Norman Douglas. Capri. Materials for a Description of the Island.. G.Orioli. Florence, 1930.
Price: US$771.77 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed by the author. First Edition 1930, limited to 525 copies of which 500 were for sale. This is No. 443. Very Good as issued in original light blue paper covered boards backed with blue linen. Blue calf label to spine with border and titles in gilt. No dust jacket as issued but now protected by clear acetate. Published by G.Orioli in Florence. Quarto. pp.365 including index, 23 b&w illustrations and 1 colour engraving of the Blue Grotto. Uncut. Binding in good clean condition, with uneven sunning as is common with this edition. The binding is sound, and the rear hinge has been strengthened professionally. Corners are sharp with some loss to the covering paper at the points. Internally clean and unmarked, with no previous owner's name or bookplates. Pages fresh and bright, many unopened, including limitation page with Norman Douglas's signature. A very nice copy that has been well looked after but clearly never read. Note: The book is heavy and will require extra postage if shipped outside UK.
Seller: Barracks Books, Nash, United Kingdom
DOUGLAS, Norman. Capri: Materials for a Description of the Island. G. Orioli, Florence, 1930.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Quarter cloth and papercovered boards, with leather spine label in gilt partially unopened. About near fine wear to bottom of spine, sunning, and some soiling to the front board and spine. One of 525 numbered copies Signed by the author. This is copy 308.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Douglas, Norman.. Capri. Materials for a Description of the Island.. G. Orioli., Florence, 1930.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1/525 copies (of which 500 were for sale), Numbered, and SIGNED by the Author on a preliminary limitation page, bound in pale clothbacked heavy boards, light blue paper, without jacket as issued. Very Good. Spine and parts of front board faded, dark blue spine label rubbed at edges, cloth at spine-ends lightly abraded, upper fore-edges of boards bumped. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. Bookplate front pastedown. 324pp, Index. Twenty-three monochrome illustrations, some mounted. Inspired historical and geographical chapters. Q03732
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
DOUGLAS (Norman).. Capri. G. Orioli, Florence, 1930.
Price: US$1607.85 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: INSCRIBED COPY, WITH THREE LETTERS, TWO POSTCARDS AND A PHOTOGRAPH OF DOUGLAS Materials for a Description of the Island. Photographic frontispiece and 22 plates. First Edition. Large 8vo. [263 x 183 x 48 mm]. xvi, 365, [1] pp. Bound in the original sky-blue manilla paper boards, sky-blue cloth spine, lettered in gilt on a blue leather label, uncut and unopened edges, in original glassine paper wrappers (torn with loss). [ebc7975] Florence: G. Orioli, 1930. Woolf A 33. No.6 of 525 copies signed by the author. 500 were for sale priced at 30s. A very good copy, with just a little light spotting on the edges. It is inscribed in green ink on the front endleaf: "For Stephen Clark hoping that these pages - if he succeeds in reading them - may soon persuade him to return to Capri from Norman Douglas. Capri. Nov. 1950". There are also three letters from Douglas to Clark, two inscribed postcards (of Capri and Douglas with Carmelina, the once famous tarantella dancer) and an inscribed photograph of Douglas at the age of 82 with his bust at the age of 10. Stephen Clark (1913-2011) was the great-grandson of James Clark who in 1833 went into partnership with his brother Cyrus to create the world-famous shoe manufacturing firm of C. & J. Clark of Street in Somerset. Clark was a great admirer and collector of Norman Douglas, and the author was keen to encourage his enthusiasm.
Seller: George Bayntun ABA ILAB PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom